Only a handful of airlines operate from Bujumbura airport, including Brussels Airlines (Burundi was a former Belgium colony), Kenya Airways, Rwandair Express, Air Burundi and Ethiopian Airlines.

Facilities at Bujumbura International Airport are limited without even the provision of air conditioning; there a couple of shops and a cafe/bar ~ if you can afford the rather high prices asked. However, if you're travelling  business class you get the luxury of your own lounge, superbly kitted out with er, well a few chairs and a television. Class.

Other airports in Burundi include Gitega Airport in central Burundi, some forty miles east of Bujumbura. Gitega is Burundi's second largest city and there have been suggestions that it may become Burundi's capital city given its central location, although these plans are still in a consultation stage. Burundi's other airport is in the far north of the country in Kirundo close to Lake Rwihinda, a popular destination for bird watchers with its forty nine types of  mainly aquatic birds.